You can see, hear, feel, and sometimes even smell the history throughout Massachusetts. Check out the very rock where the Pilgrims landed, and visit Plimoth Patuxet Museums to see what life was like in the 1600s. Or experience life in the 1830s over at Old Sturbridge Village, one of the country’s oldest and largest living history museums. Walk the Freedom Trail in downtown Boston, where every step tells a story of the American Revolution or listen for the famous “shot heard round the world” on Lexington Green, where the first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired. Sit where the giants of the abolitionist movement sat in the brilliantly restored African American Meeting House. Feel the hull of Old Ironsides, otherwise known as the USS Constitution.
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Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate
Boston
Eleanor Cabot Bradley Estate
Canton
Eustis Estate
Milton
Faneuil Hall Marketplace
Boston
Freedom Trail® Foundation
Boston
Ghosts & Gravestones Tour
Boston
The Gibson House Museum
Boston
Gore Place
Waltham
Granary Burial Ground
Boston
The Guild of Boston Artists
Boston
Hancock Cemetery, Quincy
Quincy
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cambridge
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
Cambridge
Harvard University
Cambridge
Hub Town Tours LLC
Boston
The Innovation Trail
Boston
Jackson Homestead and Museum
Newton
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
Boston
Josiah Quincy House, A Historic New England Property
Quincy
The Liberty Fleet of Tall Ships
Boston
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Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate
Columbia Point
Boston
617-740-7000 - B
Eleanor Cabot Bradley Estate
2468 B Washington St.
Rte. 138
Canton
978.356.4351 x8814; 781.821.2996 - C
Eustis Estate
1424 Canton Avenue
Milton
617-994-6600 - D
Faneuil Hall Marketplace
Merchants Row
Boston
617-242-5675 - E
Freedom Trail® Foundation
44 School Street, Suite 250
Boston
617-357-8300 - F
Ghosts & Gravestones Tour
200 Atlantic Avenue
Boston
888-920-8687 - G
The Gibson House Museum
137 Beacon St.
Boston
6172676338 - H
Gore Place
52 Gore St.
Waltham
781-894-2798 - I
Granary Burial Ground
95 Tremont St.
Boston
(617) 635-4505 - J
The Guild of Boston Artists
162 Newbury Street
Boston
617-536-7660 - K
Hancock Cemetery, Quincy
1307 Hancock Street
Quincy
617-376-1253 - L
Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge
617-495-3045 - M
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge
1-617-495-4631 - N
Harvard University
1350 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge
617-495-1573 - O
Hub Town Tours LLC
50 Beacon Street
Boston Common
Boston
844-HUB-TOWN - P
The Innovation Trail
Po Box 130386
Boston
N/A - Q
Jackson Homestead and Museum
527 Washington Street
Newton
6177961450 - R
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
Columbia Point
Boston
866-535-1960 - S
Josiah Quincy House, A Historic New England Property
20 Muirhead Street
Quincy
617-994-5930 - T
The Liberty Fleet of Tall Ships
67 Long Wharf
Boston
617-742-0333
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